VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. When employed in Microsoft Internet Explorer, VBScript is very similar in function to JavaScript, as a language to write functions that are embedded in or included from HTML pages and interact with the Document Object Model (DOM) of the page, to perform tasks not possible in HTML alone. Besides client-side web development, VBScript can be used for server-side processing of web pages, mostly notably with Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP).